Major Hamza Al-Mustapha has revealed that the Arewa youth groups could have handled the situation involving the Igbos better than they have, by directing their grievances towards the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
According to the Daily Post, he surmised that the youth wing of the core northern group should have addressed the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB or their leader, Nnamdi Kanu instead of asking the entire Igbo race to leave the North.
He also stated that he and and other prominent Nigerians of different tribal extractions are working tirelessly to end agitations in different part of country.
Al-Mustapha alleged that people that want to cause tension in the country are behind Kanu.
According to him, “Any call that would separate Nigeria is unacceptable. I have been playing a leading role right from the onset, before it even got to this level.
“We have been criss-crossing the North and the South-East, and to all parties concerned, mediating for peace.
“I was recently in Owerri to sign a peace accord with appropriate associations as well as in the North. We are on top of these agitations but my understanding of it all, is that people are investing in these problems to promote themselves.
“If Arewa youths had addressed IPOB as a group or the leader Nnamdi Kanu as an individual, it would have been a fair share, but addressing millions of Igbos that reside in the North is not acceptable by our Constitution.
“We have spoken to the Northern Leaders Forum as well as Ralph Nwazuruike because Nnamdi Kanu was the boy he brought him up to be in the Radio House in London.
““People that want to create tension in Nigeria are behind Kanu, so he became what he is today as a result of that.
“However, what he is conveying may not necessarily be his agenda but those investing in the tension to separate us as a nation.
“But our security agencies are doing a lot to track them and they have the initiative of what is going on. All I am after is creation of a platform that is sincere and caters for indigent Nigerians.”
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